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Why would you ever agree to work for a company that builds useless products, regardless of pay?

In our experience, founders have spent money on their ideas. However, many bootstrapped startups (particularly the hardware engineering companies we have helped) don't have enough for talent and prototyping. When equity is issued these companies are bringing on partners, not gullible engineers. Just my two cents, please let me know if you see it differently.
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What does that have to do with _anything_ said by either Chuck Moore or the person to whom you replied? I get that programmers (and I'm no exception) have a mental defect where they try to show how smart they are by compulsively interjecting at every opportunity. But for that to have a chance of scoring you geek points you need to have some claim to relevancy, however pedantic and tangential.
>a Facebook or Twitter or Instagram only come out of the American way of doing business.

I find this statement hard to believe. There are many successful companies from other countries. What about F/T/I is different, and could only have come from the US?
Note that technically the file contents don't need to be in the cloud, but rather the metadata and indexing do. I'm guessing that the indexing is how Dropbox breaks the file into blocks, checksums them and does some form of duplicate detection to save on storage costs.
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Which part of Africa?
What sort of code are you writing? What languages are you using?
Because it strips any meta information contained in the file which reduces file size. It can also losslessly optimize the image. See here for details (I've written about it a short while ago): http://hancic.info/optimize-jpg-or-jpeg-images-automatically...
It's great that your organization is responsible about it. Sounds like there's a great deal of trust in your organization.

It sounds like there are numerous ways for this to go badly - ie: when it gets noticed that you went over 37.5 hours in some organizations that might start to be a blame game, or you'd start getting requests to "we need it done, but we also need you to do it off the clock so we don't get into trouble for breaking EU regs".

It's great that your organization sees that people might be in trouble and has a mature (aka: not blaming) attitude. I guess I always assume organizations will adopt ROWE without making the appropriate cultural changes.
65,127 total upvotes
57,835 total down votes

The figures displayed on reddit are not accurate -- unless they've changed recently.
Certainly not, Google learned from Microsoft that without friends in Washington to make these problems go away, they'll charge you with random offenses until you start contributing to their campaigns.

"That's a nice business over there, would be a shame if we found you were running a monopoly, why don't you contribute to our campaign and we'll protect you from those DOJ lawyers"

If giving a browser away is anti-competitive I wonder what giving an entire operating system + browser away for free is.
Chuck's philosophy is all about getting rid of everything that is not absolutely necessary for the task at hand, paring both the problem and solution down to the minimum. Compare this with the instinct that most programmers have to generalize every problem and abstract code into "reusable" modules, whether or not that code is ever actually reused. Chuck might say that the best way to write maintainable code is to keep the codebase small enough that it can be rewritten when the requirements change. To program in Forth you have to fight against instincts drawn in from other languages.
Thank you, that was useful. There's a lot of set-up costs that I rather spend in inventory but I guess the best course of action is doing everything right from the start.
Leadership, transition and improving our codebases
Ok, their mobile app was once a beautiful thing. Then some retard designers got ahold of it.

- Now, there is hardly a text summary on posts. Just big ass pictures with hardly any content.
- There's a delay when fetching new content.
- They added really shitty scrolling animations that are just annoying.

You can install the older v2.5 of the app and bypass the crappy UI/UX, but you lose the newer features of G+. Sad tradeoff!
Why should they though? They thought it was worth $10. Why is their pricing mistake rewarded?
I wish we had just stuck with WebSQL.
Sorry guys i just launched the design. Any ideas how to fix would be appreciated. Also has issues in IE. I use chrome so didnt notice
Show HN: I built a site that lets you share and rate health treatments
Why do you need additional privileges for truncate table compared to delete?
Excellent! I know I'm biased but I also know you've put a lot of effort into this. Well done Joseph.
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WebSql was just about a single open source project - SQLite. IndexedDB seems to move away from the requirement that a standard is based on a product. Also, the SQL used in WebSql was not standardized.
Added this IndexedDB polyfill to the example and was able to get it running on all browsers

http://axemclion.github.com/IndexedDBShim/dist/IndexedDBShim...
Thanks for sharing your opinion. We made the video by creating a listing on our site, issuing alternative compensation, and working with someone to develop it. Our founders are all engineers and designers who work solely on the product, which we admit is not perfect (our product is less than 6 weeks old). We look forward to (hopefully) changing your mind about us in the future.
Couple of years ago flew on an MD-80/DC-10 that had what looked like the original 1970's-era instrumentation. It did look pretty ancient. Wonder how many pilots are even qualified to fly on that, or if the qualifications are different.

The same plane was leaking fuel out of the wing throughout the flight. Not really confidence-inspiring.
Sorry, I forgott to update the gem, on rubygems.org.
Just install the gem again now.
The site is our MVP, however, the product is functional. Feel free to sign up and let us know what you think.
^v is to have a single key pass through and then return to normal mode, ^z actually enters pass through mode until you hit esc.
Cool, thanks. Wasn't aware of the light variant.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to my first retina laptop.
Sorry, were working on it. That happens when blank cells are left the form. I apologize.
I think it's intentional, well, not ugly but no effort to make it beautiful either. I see my computer as a tool; do people care if their electric drill looks ugly?

Plus, if you ask me, sturdy case, functional keyboard, docking connector and myriad of ports is a very smart design that trumps macbooks.
True. I'll think about that and see what we can come up with... thanks for sharing your opinion!
Yes, Agile in not a panacea: you can't just drop it into an existing org and expect things to be rainbows and kittens. It needs to be accepted both at the grass-roots level AND management level.

Then when Agile fails a person or an organization it's Agile's (or Scrum's) fault... when it's really a people problem.

I guess I'm just waiting for the blog articles, 10 years from now, bemoaning ROWE because it didn't save an organization with a toxic environment. :-) (And feeling sorry for the poor developers involved).
> But he isn't trying to be a successful journalist/writer. He was offering advice to other entrepreneurs who would probably take his advice over a journalist's any day of the week.

Yes, and in that case, he should have been open to the common-sense writing advice of a professional. But no, not so. Apparently he believed being a successful entrepreneur makes one successful at everything else by fiat.

> Being persuasive comes in many forms.

Not in writing. At risk of posing a tautology, persuasive writing depends, not on the writer or the topic, but on the writing.

> There's a reason why all sports shows nearly always have a former player/coach as an analyst.

That ought to have disqualified Ernest Hemingway from writing about bullfighting. But Hemingway could write.

> Being successful might even be better since your words are backed with hard-earned credibility.

Under those circumstances, with an assured audience, he should have had the courage to offer ten points rather than 90.

"I am sorry I have had to write you such a long letter, but I did not have time to write you a short one" -- Blaise Pascal
shortcutFoo is pretty slick. Bookmarked.
A beginner's guide to Redirect and Render in Rails
As I sit here with a mid-back pain I've been fighting for over a week now, I've been thinking a lot about getting a sit-to-stand setup. My back-pain probably wasn't caused by sitting though (I am actually quite capable of sitting, typing, etc in front of a computer for hours, even WoW didn't cause me any symptoms) but more probably because of a small 20lb monster I have to carry around frequently.

That said, the sitting for long hours aggravates the sore back resulting in much, much longer healing times. So I'm looking for some way to have a bit more movement and better posture while I work. I'm curious if most people have found this works well for them. Sore feet seem to be the commonly quoted issue, which is where the sit-to-stand design comes in to play for me.

It's about a $750 purchase for a geek desk. Is it worth it?
I'm not knocking the color scheme, I think black with red highlights can look pretty slick myself. It's just the overall feeling I get... it just looks so sharp-edged and industrial. To me that's the opposite of aesthetic. On the other hand they're doubtlessly excellent machines and there's no accounting for taste, even mine :)
While I'm not the parent, I can comment on this too.

I program in Python, C, C++ and Java. In all these languages I prefer a proportional font. However I had to stop, mainly because the editors I want to use (Sublime text 2 at the moment) don't support proportional fonts.
Developers: When using Frecency, please consider the context
PragmataPro really is a beautiful font. At first I was concerned that the larger line-height was a poor tradeoff for the decreased width, but it's so much more readable at lower sizes than e.g. DejaVu (my prior font of choice) that I've actually gained rows on my screen without sacrificing readability.

My only remaining concern is that the hypen isn't vertically centered with many of the other symbols, making -= and -> look awkward.
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"Fast forward 88 years to 2012". Seeing as neither 1836 nor 1937 are anywhere close to 88 years before 2012, I'm not all that confident in the fact-checking of the other numbers in the article.
Correction to my suggestions for settings, since I cannot edit the original anymore.

It should say SUBSAMPLING ON and PROGRESSIVE ON

Not subsampling off. Off is the incorrect setting and makes much larger images (or reduces the available space when restricting file size).
"as it has been received by your company & that's your responsibility"

How can you document that they received it? Have you sent it certified or by some other trackable method?
Research is always funded by someone. Nothing is truly unbiased or without hidden agendas.
People seem to forget that Microsoft was targeted because of its anticompetitive tactics as a monopoly. At its peak, MS had something like 95% of the market for PC operating systems, and was busily using that monopoly to push its way into other markets where it wouldn't necessarily be competitive on its own. The problem wasn't giving away IE, the problem was giving away IE with their OS so that they could take over the browser market by leveraging their OS monopoly.

Until and unless Google (or any other modern player) has a 90+% market share in some area, comparisons with MS's antitrust case are faulty.
Entire cities dead on some World of Warcraft realms
The World's New Numbers (2009)
The horizontal spacing of Consolas and Source Code Pro are almost identical. The vertical spacing of SCP is much greater, but you're more likely to be able to adjust that in your editor anyway.
The author's sense of time and history is spectacularly bad.

Given that he made the mistake at multiple places across the article, he really seems to unquestioningly believe that the industrial revolution was underway less than 100 years ago in London.
Second Verdana. I use it on both Mac and Windows for all languages. It looks and reads better that any of the fixed fonts I've tried. In the first couple of days after I switched it felt a bit weird, but then that feeling went away. I suspect that was due to the fact that I was simply used to fixed fonts and not that there was anything wrong with proportional fonts.
The only thing worse than advertisement captchas is thought crime captchas.
It's reminiscent of DejaVu Sans Mono, the Free coding font I've been using and liking lately.
This is exactly how it was with Usenet "back in the day". It probably still is, but I don't go there anymore.

Of course, your identity then was your email address. I don't know what we were thinking!
The Value Proposition Canvas
How large percentage of the storage space can you use before you enter garbage collection hell?
Indeed, there are dozens of choices for web browsers, and even if you limit yourself to "mainstream" browsers there are still close to half-a-dozen. Likewise search, and there's nothing other than quality of results limiting any of them (i.e. using Chrome as a browser doesn't prevent you from using DDG or Bing for search, or even make it difficult).
Nah, people were going crazy about the Prime pre-launch. And Asus messed it up with delays and poor WiFi, non-existant GPS and then srewing customers who did buy it by announcing "better" model soon after.
Due to subsidies, there's a lot more room at the bottom in tablets. You can get an iPhone for $99, if you sign a contract, so to be much "cheaper" than that the difference is a subtle one based on contract terms. If the next nexus is $100 as rumored that puts it into impulse buy territory for most westerners.
Obvious starting point: test in more than one browser. Many have tools you can use to explore the DOM and figure out what you did wrong.
There's no way to delete a Hacker News account.
Picking Colors Optimally: An Optimization Problem in Python
"Can someone just disrupt these folks out of existence already?"

Charging people different pricing in different locations or at different times or to different buyers is not in itself wrong (although it can be).

Restaurants regularly give "senior" discounts, "ladies for free" as well as offer discounts if you dine at different times. Is that fair to me if I only dine on Saturday night? (Or what they do by having special menus for New Years Eve or other occasions where the price is higher than on normal nights). It's not about fair. Companies do what they have to do in order to make a profit and in some cases that involves legally charging different buyers different prices. I'm able to make a better deal, for example, at a car dealer because presumably I can negotiate better than some other people. As a result the car dealer trying to rip off a newbie subsidizes my sale and allows them to charge me less (so they can meet their manufacturer volume requirements)

If the companies could charge more overseas perhaps they would. In any case the volume in sales they make offsets the price that they have to charge in the US as well. It's entirely possible that if they tried to sell at the higher price overseas they would have less total volume manufactured and as a result the price in the US would be higher than it is. I drive a fairly expensive car. If the manufacturer wants to price it at a lower cost in some new market overseas and they can lower their costs doing so and sell me my next car at a lower price (but not as low as overseas) that's fine with me.

I don't know and I'm not saying this is what's happening with textbooks. I am merely pointing out that the constant use of "disrupt" doesn't always take into account the reasons why things are the way they are.
And I never saw it this way... IE was legitimately better than Netscape for a while, and consumers gravitated to it. As proof, IE is still the default browser, and Windows is still the dominant PC OS, but IE has fallen from its top position because competing browsers are better. Microsoft's so-called "monopoly" on the desktop did not prevent competition; you could always easily install a different browser, and now that the alternatives are better than IE, people are doing that.
Thank you so much for sharing this :)

So much to learn so less time ..
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>I have a hard time understanding how this can be considered an antitrust violation when switching is so easy.

Switching was never hard even in Microsoft's anti-trust case. You could easily download and install Netscape. Microsoft never forbid anyone from doing it and I can remember distinctly Netscape being included with my ISP's software floppy. What made the case was all about what was available default to the user. Interestingly under the same context you will find anti-trust violations if Chromebook became the majority and Firefox din't come installed by default.
Before dumping the money on a geek desk, you really ought to try a hacked-together solution for a week or so. There's the $20 IKEA hack option or you can just stick a chair or a box on your desk.

You may end up finding your prefer a specific configuration and look at other standing desk options.

Also, in terms of sittings vs. standing and sore feet. I've been OK with comfortable shoes, but I'm close to getting a standing mat. There are some pretty pricey ones on Amazon, but Uline sells standing mats for $30 that are probably comparable to the expensive ones.
And here is the source code for the client: https://github.com/larspensjo/ephenation-client
Personally, I find them very aesthetic. But this comes down to a subjective feeling.

More important in my opinion is the functional design, which Thinkpads really excel at.
Sure it will. Everyone who says no is (in my oppinion) trapped in the famous Apple Reality Distortion Field(tm) ;)

It's the same situation as with the iPhone. People said "noooo, the iPhone will be king ever!!". Nope.

Honestly, how could this even happen? With one tablet? Or 2?
Where is the diversity? Where is the low-cost option? Where is my tablet with keyboard attached? Etc. etc.

Android is about choice, it will win this, undoubtly. As long as Apple doesn't produce much more different hardware and delivers at much more price points, they will not win the whole market. But well. There is always the high margin top niche ;)
i think i might have said that 1 year ago. now i feel like the secret sauce is that there is no secret sauce except working your ass off. great products and prolific blogging are hard work, but they'll get your name out there. its that slow linear growth that is frustrating, but tried and true.

i'll admit i still read these with the hope of some magic silver bullet that gets rocket lease on track for exponential growth, but i haven't found it yet and i have nothing but respect for the founders that have it in them to relentlessly do PR and write blogs.
The hyphen problem is fixed in the most recent version!

CHANGES FROM 0.8 TO 0.81
edited by Fabrizio Schiavi 2012-06

* dashrockets
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are horizontally aligned

* | ¦ "bar" and "brokenbar" are now designed to be overlapped between two lines of text
| ¦ (useful for iTerm2, tmux 1.6., Terminal.app and others)

* horizontal strokes of the letter Nun (U+05E0) is a bit shorter,
to help make it more distinct from Kaph (U+05DB)

* Italic weight is TrueType handhinted

* Bold Italic weight is TrueType handhinted

* added an entire Unicode block:
2100-214F Letterlike Symbols to the Regular weight

* added these letters from the block
1D400-1D7FF Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
to the Regular weight:

Amathdoublestruck, Bmathdoublestruck, Dmathdoublestruck,
Emathdoublestruck, Fmathdoublestruck, Gmathdoublestruck,
Imathdoublestruck, Jmathdoublestruck, Kmathdoublestruck,
Lmathdoublestruck, Mmathdoublestruck, Omathdoublestruck,
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Cmathboldfraktur, Dmathboldfraktur, Emathboldfraktur, Fmathboldfraktur,
Gmathboldfraktur, Hmathboldfraktur, Imathboldfraktur
Convert - alternative to the decommissioned Google conversion api
> Where is the diversity? Where is the low-cost option?

Right now there's the choice of the iPad 2, or "The New iPad" and soon we can add the "iPad Mini."

> Where is my tablet with keyboard attached? Etc. etc.

Logitech makes a really slick one.

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/tablet-accessories/keyboard-ca...
I believe these figures were pre-Nexus 7 (and pre Kindle Fire HD line), so all else held equal, I'd imagine these figures are skewed slightly downwards.
If you're interested in this idea, I liked how this article addresses how it could be applied in a tech company:

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/tech-companie...
I could see it happen, especially if you count things like the Nook and Kindle Touch as Android tablets.
No, I can't think of a single product range where apple held on to a 70%+ market share despite lower priced and more feature rich competitors coughipodcough
I kept hearing about these issues, but never saw them myself. Maybe those people having the issues were holding the tablet wrong?

Besides, the Transformer Pad Infinity hasn't had these issues, has it?
Proportional fonts seem to work for me in ST2 (http://i.imgur.com/ZLZWP.png) I just put this into the config:

"font_face": "Verdana"

Though I may be missing something.
The ThinkPad was designed by Richard Sapper [1], somewhat of a legend in industrial design.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sapper
I think Apple's strategy here is to keep the price pressure on for the bottom end of the market. Since their margins are better than everyone else's, they can give up some of that to deliver a 7" tablet that keeps the competitors in the low price ghetto, struggling to compete, while Apple makes $$ in the high end.
> To me that's the opposite of aesthetic.

I see "aesthetic" as a subjective concept, so I don't really understand how it can have an opposite. It's a matter of opinion, and for a lot of people, the ThinkPad design has what they're looking for.
It sounds great in theory but the previous example only saved < 200 bytes. That's not really optimization, that's overkill.
Funny how they talk about how classic the machine is after completely botching up the keyboard. They even mentioned the keyboard in the PDF!
I'm a huge fan of Panic Sans. Ripped it out of Coda and use it in Vim and my terminals.
This is interesting. I'm guessing a site like this needs a lot of content to work well. How did you get the site filled up with content initially?
If you don't care about the small footprint then go with Gambit/Bigloo as they play nicely with C too.